Heavy
['hevɪ] or ['hɛvi]
Definition
(noun.) a serious (or tragic) role in a play.
(noun.) an actor who plays villainous roles.
(adj.) darkened by clouds; 'a heavy sky' .
(adj.) (of sleep) deep and complete; 'a heavy sleep'; 'fell into a profound sleep'; 'a sound sleeper'; 'deep wakeless sleep' .
(adj.) lacking lightness or liveliness; 'heavy humor'; 'a leaden conversation' .
(adj.) requiring or showing effort; 'heavy breathing'; 'the subject made for labored reading' .
(adj.) full of; bearing great weight; 'trees heavy with fruit'; 'vines weighed down with grapes' .
(adj.) sharply inclined; 'a heavy grade' .
(adj.) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; 'a heavy pudding' .
(adj.) of comparatively great physical weight or density; 'a heavy load'; 'lead is a heavy metal'; 'heavy mahogany furniture' .
(adj.) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; 'a heavy truck'; 'heavy machinery' .
(adj.) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; 'a heavy heart'; 'a heavy schedule'; 'heavy news'; 'a heavy silence'; 'heavy eyelids' .
(adj.) unusually great in degree or quantity or number; 'heavy taxes'; 'a heavy fine'; 'heavy casualties'; 'heavy losses'; 'heavy rain'; 'heavy traffic' .
(adj.) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; 'heavy hydrogen'; 'heavy water' .
(adj.) of great intensity or power or force; 'a heavy blow'; 'the fighting was heavy'; 'heavy seas' .
(adj.) slow and laborious because of weight; 'the heavy tread of tired troops'; 'moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot'; 'ponderous prehistoric beasts'; 'a ponderous yawn' .
(adj.) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; 'heavy artillery'; 'heavy infantry'; 'a heavy cruiser'; 'heavy guns'; 'heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries' .
(adj.) full and loud and deep; 'heavy sounds'; 'a herald chosen for his sonorous voice' .
(adj.) made of fabric having considerable thickness; 'a heavy coat' .
(adj.) of relatively large extent and density; 'a heavy line' .
(adj.) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; 'Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'' .
(adv.) slowly as if burdened by much weight; 'time hung heavy on their hands'.
Inputed by Barnard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the heaves.
(superl.) Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
(superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
(superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.
(superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.
(superl.) Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.
(superl.) Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
(superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.
(superl.) Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.
(superl.) Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
(superl.) Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.
(superl.) Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.
(superl.) With child; pregnant.
(adv.) Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
(v. t.) To make heavy.
Checker: Lucille
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Weighty (with reference to one's strength), ponderous, not light, not easy to lift.[2]. Oppressive, grievous, severe, burdensome, cumbersome, afflictive.[3]. Dull, sluggish, inert, inactive, stupid, torpid, indolent, slow.[4]. Dejected, depressed, sorrowful, sad, gloomy, melancholy, despondent, downcast, down-hearted, low-spirited, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, in low spirits.[5]. Onerous, difficult, laborious.[6]. Tedious, tiresome, wearisome.[7]. Loaded, burdened, encumbered, weighed down.[8]. Miry, muddy, cloggy, clayey.[9]. Clammy (as bread), not well raised.[10]. Stormy, tempestuous, violent, boisterous.[11]. Loud, deep, roaring.
Edited by Georgina
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Weighty, ponderous, inert, slow, stupid, dull, impenetrable, stolid, cumbrous,grievous, afflictive, oppressive, burdensome, sluggish, laborious, depressed,[See {[180 HUT]?}]
ANT:Light, trifling, trivial, agile, active, quick, brisk, joyous, alleviative,condolatory, inspiriting, animating, buoyant
Editor: Susanna
Definition
adj. weighty: not easy to bear: oppressive: afflicted: inactive: dull lacking brightness and interest: inclined to slumber: violent: loud: not easily digested as food: miry as soil: having strength as liquor: dark with clouds: gloomy: expensive: (B.) sad: (theat.) pertaining to the representation of grave or serious parts.—adv. Heav′ily.—n. Heav′iness.—adjs. Heav′y-armed bearing heavy armour or arms; Heav′y-hand′ed clumsy awkward: oppressive; Heav′y-head′ed having a heavy or large head: dull stupid drowsy; Heav′y-heart′ed weighed down with grief; Heav′y-lād′en laden with a heavy burden.—n. Heav′y-spar native sulphate of barium barytes.—Heavy marching order the condition of troops fully equipped for field service; Heavy metal guns or shot of large size: great influence or power; Heavy-weight one beyond the average weight esp. in sporting phrase one placed highest in the ascending scale feather-weight light-weight middle-weight heavy-weight; Heavy wet a drink of strong ale or ale and porter mixed.—The heavies (mil.) the heavy cavalry: those who play heavy parts.
Editor: Will
Examples
- For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She stood looking at him in gloomy, heavy silence, for some time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The animal was not there at all, only the heavy, broken beauty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The most efficient form of water motor is the turbine, a strong metal wheel shaped somewhat like a pin wheel, inclosed in a heavy metal case. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In order to provide against vibration I was obliged to make the frame of the machine much heavier than I first intended. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The white, snow-like vapor seen falling over the edges of the tumbler is intensely cold and heavier than ordinary air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is true he is heavier than mercury. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The time went very slowly on, and Mr. Lorry's hope darkened, and his heart grew heavier again, and grew yet heavier and heavier every day. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Naturally, the heavier side of the ball swings to the bottom. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The heaviest British gun at that time was of 111-ton weight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Moreover, and what was the heaviest blow of all, he had time, thus unmolested, to get a good start. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The heaviest loss sustained by the enemy was in front of these two divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Everything is stone, and stone of the heaviest--floors, stairways, mantels, benches--everything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These people here live in the heaviest, highest, broadest, darkest, solidest houses one can imagine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This was an endless steel belt serrated on one edge, mounted on pulleys, and driven continuously by the power of steam through the hardest and the heaviest work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Gertrude